[Framers] Captions

[Doug]

Thanks for that tip, Rick.  It works brilliantly, and it's so simple I'm
surprised I didn't think of it.

Doug

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:13 PM Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com> wrote:

> I am not sure how your document is set up, but I have done something like
> this:
>
> paragraph format: "anchor" with autonumber F:<n+> and color White. This is
> the paragraph that has the anchored frame.
> paragraph format: "caption" with autonumber F:Figure <n>.
>
> All of my cross-references point to the anchor paragraph.
>
> Rick Quatro
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com>
> On
> Behalf Of Doug
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2019 11:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Framers] Captions
>
> My shop's standard is to (sigh) put the captions below the objects.  My
> workaround for this is to put a xref link above the object.  This works
> well, except the object name/number in the xref link doesn't update
> automatically if the caption changes.  (This is the reason for one of my
> feature requests I've submitted.)
>
> I was hoping I'd overlooked an easy solution to ensure my caption
> names/numbers in the xref links would stay updated automagically.
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:07 AM Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Frame goes to where you put the cross-reference marker, so yes, if you
> > want the graphic to be visible when you jump to it, you have to put
> > the marker above the graphic. Frame only has one type of
> > cross-reference marker; there is no way for the program to distinguish
> > between "this place in the text", "this caption above a graphic", or
> "this
> caption below a graphic".
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 8:19 AM Doug <dbailey4117 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there an industry standard or best practice to follow when
> > > deciding where to place the caption for an image, table, or
> > > equation?  The obvious choices are either above the object or below it.
> > >
> > > Also, if you place your captions below, how do you deal with making
> > > cross-references to the caption?  In my experience the caption
> > > displays
> > at
> > > the top of the screen after the link jump. which puts the object out
> > > of sight above the top of the screen in this case.
> > >
> > > It almost seems as if FrameMaker expects users to put captions above
> > > the object.
> > >
> > > Doug
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